2008 | book list.

Same as last year, bolded movies are favourites, underlined movies are re-watches and movies in a small font were seen on DVD.

• January
  1. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
  2. Serenity
  3. Bring It On
  4. Tropic Thunder
  5. Seven Pounds
  6. Slumdog Millionaire
• February
  1. Shopgirl
  2. Mulan 2
  3. Across the Universe
  4. Forgetting Sarah Marshall
  5. Caramel
• March
  1. Watchmen
  2. The Cave ( Read more... )

Books!

2008 | 2007 | 2006 | reading challenges | movie list

Favourites bolded and rereads underlined, as usual. There won't be any school reading this year; woo!

• January
  1. The End of Food - Paul Roberts | 390 pages
  2. Godless - Pete Hautman | 198 pages
  3. The Girl in the Flammable Skirt - Aimee Bender | 181 pages
  4. The Day I Turned Uncool - Dan Zevin | 172 ( Read more... )

Things that make me happy, day three: I read seventy pages or so of a fairly slow-moving (interesting, mind you, but slow) book without getting bored this afternoon! Which doesn't sound like a big deal, and it wouldn't have been a year ago, but this last semester my attention span just shrank to almost nothing. It seems to be coming back. :)

Stuff-that-makes-me-happy, day two (special birthday edition!): I got my P-plates! I haven't had a chance to go driving yet, my parents both took their cars to work with them, but I'm taking Mum's this afternoon.

Two memes...

( End-of-year meme, from Meghan. )

I already posted this to mp3_share, but...

My playlist. Two requests per person unless you're responding to one of my requests, in which case go nuts. You're my friends, so request whatever you like.

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( Long list of requests. )

- I have no more (school) assignments, ever! (Orals and tests and portfolio stuff, but no assignments.)
- Obama won the election!

So now I can breathe.

*breathes*

Today...

• I wrote most of (and am soon going to finish writing) a really excellent essay for Sociology. I think I have my mojo back. My... essay-writing mojo.
• I had my second-last driving lesson ever! Next stop: P's. (Unfortunately, that "next stop" is two months away, because I'm still 16. But still.)
• I came out to Dad. He brought it up. It was ( Read more... )

Also, I keep having to fight the urge to tell people I love them in totally inappropriate situations.

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I've been downloading a lot of new music lately. My favourites of the bunch...

♪ Moan - Cute Is What We Aim For (One for the wistful Darwin-nostalgia playlist. Um, not that I have such a playlist. But if I did...)
♪ The Maladjusted Jester - Danny Kaye (Sean, I was saying I had a song for you? This is the one.)
♪ The North Wind Blew South - ( Read more... )